Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Chery Automobile Co., Ltd. has 5 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 5 actions are assigned to 5 distinct examiners, resulting in a unique examiner for each pending case. The portfolio spans 4 distinct art units, which is a high number of units for only 5 actions. The 4 distinct art units suggest that the company's transportation innovations are technically diverse and are being reviewed by several different specialized groups within the office.
CHANDRASIRI, UPUL PRIYADARSHAN is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. This matches the distribution of 5 distinct examiners for 5 pending office actions. For the practitioner, this means coordinating with 5 different individuals across 4 distinct art units. Even with a small number of 5 pending office actions, the presence of 4 distinct art units requires attention to the different procedural and technical expectations of each specialized group. The workload of 1 pending office action for CHANDRASIRI, UPUL PRIYADARSHAN is the standard for this company.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (20%) |
| §103 only | 3 (60%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHANDRASIRI, UPUL PRIYADARSHAN | 1 | 8.7% | -14.3% |
| KUNTZ, JEWEL A | 1 | 70.9% | +16.4% |
| REVAK, CHRISTOPHER A | 1 | 89.2% | +8.8% |
| WIBLIN, MATTHEW | 1 | 74.7% | +23.4% |
| AHMED, MASUD | 1 | 82.5% | +13.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18872031 | PARAMETER SETTING METHOD AND PARAMETER SETTING APPARATUS | AHMED, MASUD | 40d |
| 18874793 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON END-TO-END DATA ENCRYPTION | REVAK, CHRISTOPHER A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19133984 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE, VEHICLE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | CHANDRASIRI, UPUL PRIYADARSHAN | — |
| 18875578 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AVAILABLE RANGE, AND HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | KUNTZ, JEWEL A | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18872031 | PARAMETER SETTING METHOD AND PARAMETER SETTING APPARATUS | AHMED, MASUD | 40d |
| 18875578 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AVAILABLE RANGE, AND HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | KUNTZ, JEWEL A | — |
| 18874543 | HYDRAULIC SYSTEM FOR HYBRID GEARBOX AND VEHICLE | WIBLIN, MATTHEW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3665 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| 2407 | 1 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19133984 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE, VEHICLE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | CHANDRASIRI, UPUL PRIYADARSHAN | 3665 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 18875578 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AVAILABLE RANGE, AND HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | KUNTZ, JEWEL A | 3666 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18874793 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON END-TO-END DATA ENCRYPTION | REVAK, CHRISTOPHER A | 2407 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18874543 | HYDRAULIC SYSTEM FOR HYBRID GEARBOX AND VEHICLE | WIBLIN, MATTHEW | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18872031 | PARAMETER SETTING METHOD AND PARAMETER SETTING APPARATUS | AHMED, MASUD | 3657 | §103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
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